Here's a news story about the news, the liberal news, that is. Maybe someday before they go completely bankrupt and lose every last viewer, the ultra liberal cable network MSNBC will fire some of their goofball show hosts like Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnel and Rachel Maddow and start reporting real news. They might want to do that real soon since their ratings are plummeting and MSNBC has now seen its worst quarter in viewership since 2007.

Two quarters into its rebrand under Jeff Zucker, there’s good news and bad news for CNN. Nielsen Media Research has the cable news network rising to top MSNBC for a rare second-place finish behind Fox News Channel during the second quarter, but CNN ended the first half of the year with June viewership dipping to a monthly low not seen in nearly a year.

Reclaiming the runner-up slot from MSNBC for the first time since 2010, CNN’s quarterly returns were up from the first quarter and up dramatically from last June’s 21-year lows. In total viewership, the network was up year-over-year by equal measures in both total day and primetime, while its demo showing improved most in primetime. But after the major breaking news events — the Boston Marathon bombing, Oklahoma tornadoes, the Jodi Arias trial — had passed, June saw the network slip to its lowest viewership (total day and primetime) since last August, before Zucker took the helm. [...]

MSNBC delivered its worst quarterly primetime showing among total viewers and adults 25-54 since 2007. The cable network suffered dips as other networks benefited from the quarter’s bigger news stories. MSNBC’s primetime returns in total viewers (576,000) and the key demo (191,000) were at lows not seen since the fourth and second quarters of 2007, respectively. The network did manage to improve month-to-month from it lows in May, when it fell below perennial fourth-place newser HLN.

I rarely watch a full dose of MSNBC as it projects endorsement of values that run 180 degrees counter to my own value system. Chris Matthews showed himself to be a bully in an interview with one of his guests. Sean Hannity is always a gentleman even when confronting his adversaries. CNN seems to run off anchors and Fox picks them up, probably because they treat their people as the professionals that they are.

Liberals Media lunatic ranting like MSNBC has a lineup of ghetto mentality front man. They have a gays and lesbian, a numbnuts and brainless knuckle head. They’ll go down in history as Obama’s sucking dogs.

chis is so vile I just cant understand why someone would sponsor the fool. He and other like him are the reason I don’t watch this useless station. MSNBC is headed in the same direction as the little liver pills.

My Mom watches this station when I am not at home. She is not a crazy liberal, but believes that this is a Democrat station. I cannot get it through her head how crazy they are, she will be 86 next month. I was raised a Democrat and a few years ago I saw how crazy they were and changed parties. I cannot stand the D’s. They are ruining our country and the sooner MSNBC goes off the air, the better. The station gets changed IMMEDIATELY when I walk in the door, I change it because many times she does not know when I am coming home. When she does it is not on when I get here. Those people are a disgrace!

There is no doubt in my mind, the media is an enemy to every citizen of the USA. Make no mistake, this includes Fox news! They ALL stink, and they’re ALL corrupt. Different Masters, different puppeteers.. Independent Bloggers are the new Journalists. I trust Alex Jones over every major network in existence, and he is NUTS.

MSNBC is now learning the rough lesson that you can only tell lies and spread disinformation for so long before people become aware and the truth comes around to bite you in the Ass! Its sad that a certain portion of the American public is so self absorbed and uninformed that they are totally unaware of the encroachment of tyranny and the loss of their rights!

MSNBC is now learning the rough lesson that you can only tell lies and spread disinformation for so long before people become aware and the truth comes around to bite you in the Ass! Its sad that a certain portion of the American public is so self absorbed and uninformed that they are totally unaware of the encroachment of tyranny and the loss of their rights!

The parent company NBC owns multiple channels. One of my favorites is SYFI, and now I know why it is not producing scifi shows instead of stupid reality tv shows. The money SYFI makes goes to pay for MSNBC because with rating like that bad, the shows can not sponsors.

I do not support MSNBC. I watch Food Channel, FOX – Which right now is talking that horrid plain crash in San Francisco! It was a 777 plain and Thank GOD not more were Killed. My Prayers and thoughts go out to the Families and Friends. I also watch some Movies and I am downloading with Torch Web Browser the Movies I want to keep! It’s Free and Easy! Peace Be Unto You All and GOD Bless! Jane.

I would think it has more to do with 2013 being a slow political year for elections. People that watch MSNBC usually have better things to do than sit in their survival bunkers watching fake newscasters give them their daily talking points and conspiracy theory updates.

Everybody reports the same old news dictated by people in high places… Gone is the free press & everybody knows it, at least 16%! There’s a war going on out there, but does anybody report… We need to wake up America we lose a piece of our freedom everyday!!!

Maybe if they weren’t liberal biased Obama lovers and would actually report the truth about what the hell this corrupt government is REALLY up to they’d do better!! Until then…..good u get what you got coming lying pigs!!!

I stopped watching MSNBC a couple of years ago because of the likes of Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnel, Rachel Maddow and all the people on Morning Joe. I want to hear hard news not a spin (Lie). The management of MSNBC should understand that the news is a product and if that product is defective people will not buy it and if we don’t buy it it will not be long before network sponsors start pulling away.

Ok, Egypt is burning, the rioting has over 20 million strong now, andthey are reporting about Treyvon… when THAT’S your exclusive, and the largest riot in the history of the world is going on, just shut your doors, turn off the lights on your way out, and stop pretending you’re a news channel.

Warren Mcguffin Fox is the only one that actually reports the news as it is. The others spin it to try to give Odrama an advantage, or make him look blameless. He is in so deep it’s ridiculous. He needs to go.

Mary Moyer – It’s #1 because of all the (white) seniors who do nothing but sit at home and listen to what they want to hear. Hence, they turn the TV to FOX News! Oh, how they want to bring the 1950’s back!!!

I think you hit it. We can help them by contacting the sponsors and telling them we will not buy their products while they are sponsoring that trash. Too many shows, even non news are political these days. You just try to follow a good show without an agenda! It’s harder than you’d think.

This is true. Fox should be making a lot more money, because they have the ratings, but the they still struggle for sponsors. We need to support the Fox sponsors.
As for CNN their sponsors are like the airports, I only see CNN at airports and the sponsors think they are the only news stations. I suggest writing the airports.

This is true. Fox should be making a lot more money, because they have the ratings, but the they still struggle for sponsors. We need to support the Fox sponsors.
As for CNN their sponsors are like the airports, I only see CNN at airports and the sponsors think they are the only news stations. I suggest writing the airports.

If MSNBC would fire the radicals and do what no other channel is doing – putting a variety in, a Democrat, a Republican and an Independent (and they must sign a contract to be rational and to NOT inject personal opinions, only facts) – their ratings would shoot through the roof. Too bad they have hate mongers running the place who are so filled with rage against those who have differing opinions and so full of the need to control or this could be an insanely popular network…they’re just too irrational with hate to do what’s best.

As Craig implied, Fox is already doing that (except that they are injecting opinion). If all the shows were straight news (no opinion) why would you care what they are? Doesn’t an actual true fact sound the same coming from a liberal mouth as a conservative mouth or a libertarian mouth? Truth be told, if all they put out was straight news with no opinion or analyses, they would have average ratings at best. It only takes a relatively small time to get the facts. People want to hear an opinion of what it means to them!
I believe Fox tries to put out straight news on their news shows and a balanced (if somewhat right leaning) collection of opinion shows. That is probably why they are doing so well!

Sherry – I recommend watching PBS if you want the news without opinion. When they do have a debate, they bring on 1 “intelligent, rational democrat” and 1 “intelligent, rational republican” that usually aren’t running for office. They don’t need to use the same worn out sound bites that their parties tell them to “slide” in there. It’s not as entertaining but if it’s the news you want, PBS it is.

Oh how sweet this news is! Yes! I am one of the millions of Americans who DO NOT WATCH CNN, MSNBC, or Headline news( I did not even realize that HL was still broadcasting.) Hope CBS, NBC, ABC as well as the above mentioned fall into stagnant and polluted muck that “they” call reporting!

stacy how stupid are you maybe as stupid as douglas shulman who cant answer yes or no. We need more media stations like fox to report so we can make the stupid ass liars tell the truth and answer questions when asked.

fox news and cnn might ought to get there heads out of there butts and start telling the truth about what this regime in the white house is doing or they may loose viewers as well. I quit watching all television news it’s all lies and half truths not one of the news stations can be trusted to tell us the truth they all lie.

Stacy i agree with you fox is starting to sway right along with the rest O Really he stands on the fence and then decides the side he wants to jump all the fox people calls Snowden a trader because Obama was spying on them lol